The sweep of family history across the generations
The Ratner family became established in the Fifth Ward of Albany, N.Y. Abe bottled soda water and Rose nurtured a brood of children.
Helga expressed a commitment to liberal values in her lifelong work for the League of Women Voters.
Stan strung transmission wires in the South Pacific during World War II.
In 1955, Helga led a committee of parents to open a preschool in Vestal.
Mel accomplished many things in life, but his life’s greatest moments happened during the Battle of the Bulge
Abe Blokh became Abe Ratner to avoid conscription and get out of Russia. With his young wife and her mother, they voyaged from Bremen to Leeds to New York
Herman Ringel and Walter Ruby wore opposing uniforms in the Great War
From Red Hook to Gerritsen Beach to Bay Ridge, Jack and Camilla Eilertsen lived the Norwegian immigrant experience in Brooklyn
Stanley Ruby entered the public debate over nuclear missile technology in 1968-69.
Joseph and Lena Rabinowitz were Russian immigrants who ran a corner grocery in Jewish Harlem. Their nine children were native Americans